White nationalist fliers found in West Seattle, Tacoma, other Puget Sound cities

The fliers referenced a hate group and featured a Cold War-era slogan

Reports of white nationalist propaganda left in Puget Sound neighborhoods have come from Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Edmonds and Redmond, according to the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Northwest and police agencies.

Reports of white nationalist propaganda left in Puget Sound neighborhoods have come from Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Edmonds and Redmond, according to the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Northwest and police

Reports of white nationalist propaganda left in Puget Sound neighborhoods have come from Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Edmonds and Redmond, according to the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Northwest and police agencies.

Reports of white nationalist propaganda left in Puget Sound neighborhoods have come from Seattle, Tacoma, Bellevue, Edmonds and Redmond, according to the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Northwest and police

White nationalist fliers found in West Seattle, Tacoma, other Puget Sound cities

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Residents in West Seattle, Tacoma and beyond discovered fliers citing a white nationalist hate group in their neighborhoods Sunday, prompting police to investigate who is responsible for the littering.

Seattle police said nearly 50 fliers, slipped inside plastic bags and weighed down with rocks, were left on planting strips near the Alaska Junction area of West Seattle and in other nearby neighborhoods.

They included an anti-communist slogan and URL citing the website for Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League and Counter Extremism Project.

Tacoma police confirmed the same fliers turned up — about 30 to 50 of them — in the 5800 block of McGhee Street Sunday morning. Two neighbors collected them and reported the incident to the Tacoma Police Department, Sgt. Loretta Cool confirmed Monday.

The Anti-Defamation League Pacific Northwest tweeted Monday that the fliers were also left in Redmond, Edmonds and Bellevue.